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How Do I Install and Use BUSCO

What is BUSCO

BUSCO stand for Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs which can be used to assess the completeness of genome assembly and annotation.

Why BUSCO

I tried several time to use the CEGMA (Core Eukaryotic Genes Mapping Approach) on my Ubuntu14.0 mechine but failed. Then I found the developer of CEGMA has stopped to give any support for it and has suggested to use BUSCO.

After successful run, BUSCO script will produce one directory run_test (name depend upon your '-o' value) and a file 'temp'. If you run BUSCO script without deleting the old file and directory it will give following error